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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
damn bro...... maybe taboo stories are not for me.....
Alright let's immediately clear the air and say Meryl Wilsner can write THEE HELL out of a sex scene..... just ask me.... I would know..... there are no less than 10 in this book......
By the end of this audiobook I looked at Jacob and I was like "god damn do these people do anything OTHER than have sex?????" and he looked up from the twitch stream he was watching and said "huh?" but anyway maybe there is a such thing as too much of a good thing
Cassie is 21 at the beginning of this book and Erin is 38. The age gap admittedly already made me uncomfy. I thought I'd be cool with it, that it would be something juicy and exciting, but really, I am uncomfortable with age gaps in day to day life and this just made it more obvious. I am 29 years old and I cannot fucking FATHOM dating someone who was 46 years old!!! And if I wanted to go 17 years younger that person would be 12 years old at this point in time........ This is obviously just a personal preference, whatever you want to do with someone is whatever as long as you two both consent and are legal, but hey, I don't think it's a storyline I want to read again. I think we may be initially seeing this pairing as more acceptable because it's two women? But like a 17 year age gap romance between a female college student and a male doctor feels very icky to me so I would like to keep that same energy when it's wlw thank u very much
There's also the huge moral issue of the daughter/best friend not getting told... Like the issue is that Erin is Cassie's best friend's mom. The amount of MONTHS they sneak around behind this girl's back is disgusting, especially considering they have sex under the same roof that Parker (said daughter/bff) is sleeping under.... really sick stuff imo like tbh if it was solely a smut novel I could maybe be like wow they're horny but this book is a ROMANCE it is trying to sell us on two could-be real people falling in love and it is not good to imagine two real people doing that to a loved one. The way this leg of the storyline ends is SOOOOO just... *slow blink*
There's so much sex that we really don't get to see... what... makes these people... want to date... on a level deeper than physical... but I've already said my piece on that
I think my issue with the age gap is not the 17 year difference itself. It's the life stages that these people are in. Erin is a FULL BLOWN MEDICAL DOCTOR, and Cassie is a SENIOR IN COLLEGE. When I was 21 years old, I was only an adult in the legal sense, I was seriously so clueless about the world and my future.... and I do not know how I will be at the age of 37 because I still have almost a decade to go.... like it feels like a power dynamic is abused somehow idk
There's also the technical standpoint of writing from two POVs. It makes it very confusing on who the audience for the book is. Because we get backstory on both women and the issues they both are facing, and it's kind of odd for me in a romance to read about college parties at the same time I'm reading about divorce and parenting an 18 year old. I think the strongest part of this book IS the backstories, I loved Cassie and her friends and it was really nice to see Erin find herself, I just don't think them meeting in the middle is what I needed
Idk man, like I said, fantastic sex scenes albeit too damn many making the book long as hell, but almost everything else about it was just not for me. And that's okay!!! I hope it finds its audience lmao but it had the opposite effect on me and I know now that age gap romances are DECIDEDLY not for me and that is just as good of an outcome I feel
Alright let's immediately clear the air and say Meryl Wilsner can write THEE HELL out of a sex scene..... just ask me.... I would know..... there are no less than 10 in this book......
By the end of this audiobook I looked at Jacob and I was like "god damn do these people do anything OTHER than have sex?????" and he looked up from the twitch stream he was watching and said "huh?" but anyway maybe there is a such thing as too much of a good thing
Cassie is 21 at the beginning of this book and Erin is 38. The age gap admittedly already made me uncomfy. I thought I'd be cool with it, that it would be something juicy and exciting, but really, I am uncomfortable with age gaps in day to day life and this just made it more obvious. I am 29 years old and I cannot fucking FATHOM dating someone who was 46 years old!!! And if I wanted to go 17 years younger that person would be 12 years old at this point in time........ This is obviously just a personal preference, whatever you want to do with someone is whatever as long as you two both consent and are legal, but hey, I don't think it's a storyline I want to read again. I think we may be initially seeing this pairing as more acceptable because it's two women? But like a 17 year age gap romance between a female college student and a male doctor feels very icky to me so I would like to keep that same energy when it's wlw thank u very much
There's also the huge moral issue of the daughter/best friend not getting told... Like the issue is that Erin is Cassie's best friend's mom. The amount of MONTHS they sneak around behind this girl's back is disgusting, especially considering they have sex under the same roof that Parker (said daughter/bff) is sleeping under.... really sick stuff imo like tbh if it was solely a smut novel I could maybe be like wow they're horny but this book is a ROMANCE it is trying to sell us on two could-be real people falling in love and it is not good to imagine two real people doing that to a loved one. The way this leg of the storyline ends is SOOOOO just... *slow blink*
There's so much sex that we really don't get to see... what... makes these people... want to date... on a level deeper than physical... but I've already said my piece on that
I think my issue with the age gap is not the 17 year difference itself. It's the life stages that these people are in. Erin is a FULL BLOWN MEDICAL DOCTOR, and Cassie is a SENIOR IN COLLEGE. When I was 21 years old, I was only an adult in the legal sense, I was seriously so clueless about the world and my future.... and I do not know how I will be at the age of 37 because I still have almost a decade to go.... like it feels like a power dynamic is abused somehow idk
There's also the technical standpoint of writing from two POVs. It makes it very confusing on who the audience for the book is. Because we get backstory on both women and the issues they both are facing, and it's kind of odd for me in a romance to read about college parties at the same time I'm reading about divorce and parenting an 18 year old. I think the strongest part of this book IS the backstories, I loved Cassie and her friends and it was really nice to see Erin find herself, I just don't think them meeting in the middle is what I needed
Idk man, like I said, fantastic sex scenes albeit too damn many making the book long as hell, but almost everything else about it was just not for me. And that's okay!!! I hope it finds its audience lmao but it had the opposite effect on me and I know now that age gap romances are DECIDEDLY not for me and that is just as good of an outcome I feel
It was good, but like, I won’t ever read it again haha
But it was also kinda dumb and never ended
But …. It was pretty good if you know what I mean
But it was also kinda dumb and never ended
But …. It was pretty good if you know what I mean
challenging
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I feel like the moral of this book was it’s ok to sleep with your kid’s friend if you are a recovering people pleaser
There were parts of this book that were so engaging, loved the queer storyline, very spicy, but having not read the synopsis before starting - the mom (even though younger) + college aged student was way too cringe at times for me. I would have LOVED to have Parker’s narrative added throughout. I think that could have redeemed this book more for me.
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
I was shocked by how long of a narrative was in this book! I think would have enjoyed more had it been split up into two books with a will they / won’t they cliffhanger at the end of book one.
As it is, the middle of the book dragged on at times but made for some seriously smutty interludes.
The characters won me over in ways I didn’t expect and Meryl Wilsner does such a great job of describing the internal landscapes of emotional complex women.
This book is hot af, and I say that as someone who doesn’t go for MILF storylines generally.
As it is, the middle of the book dragged on at times but made for some seriously smutty interludes.
The characters won me over in ways I didn’t expect and Meryl Wilsner does such a great job of describing the internal landscapes of emotional complex women.
This book is hot af, and I say that as someone who doesn’t go for MILF storylines generally.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loved the romance, Cassie and Erin were so cute together! But I felt that sometimes the story dragged on especially with the 'oh no! We're doing something wrong' spiel.
Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC.
I did it, I finally read the MILF book. I cannot believe how incredible this book was. I was hooked from the very first page. Boy does the author know how to write a first chapter that hooks you! For starters, the whole book was so spicy I was kind of shocked? Not because of the content but just because how much of it there was (not complaining, this was definitely a positive and worked in favour of the book.) Secondly, the writing was gorgeous and the characters were so real and flawed and amazing, I fell in love with all of them. This was a very realistic take on what would happen if you accidentally slept with your best friend’s mom and then dated her. There was no contrived drama or third act break ups (thank gods.) I loved the found family that Cassie has in the book, and I really related to her and the growing pains of graduating and trying to figure out what the heck to do. Erin was such a lovely character to read, the whole book she was just so considerate of Cassie and it was refreshing to see in a romance book. I definitely choked up and almost cried during the epilogue, it was so beautiful. I’m going to need five more books about Erin and Cassie please. All in all, Mistakes Were Made was the opposite of a mistake, and is going on my all time favourites shelf. 5/5 stars.
I did it, I finally read the MILF book. I cannot believe how incredible this book was. I was hooked from the very first page. Boy does the author know how to write a first chapter that hooks you! For starters, the whole book was so spicy I was kind of shocked? Not because of the content but just because how much of it there was (not complaining, this was definitely a positive and worked in favour of the book.) Secondly, the writing was gorgeous and the characters were so real and flawed and amazing, I fell in love with all of them. This was a very realistic take on what would happen if you accidentally slept with your best friend’s mom and then dated her. There was no contrived drama or third act break ups (thank gods.) I loved the found family that Cassie has in the book, and I really related to her and the growing pains of graduating and trying to figure out what the heck to do. Erin was such a lovely character to read, the whole book she was just so considerate of Cassie and it was refreshing to see in a romance book. I definitely choked up and almost cried during the epilogue, it was so beautiful. I’m going to need five more books about Erin and Cassie please. All in all, Mistakes Were Made was the opposite of a mistake, and is going on my all time favourites shelf. 5/5 stars.